For the second one yr in a row, the lads’s Canadian 5K file used to be shattered on the B.A.A. 5K in Boston. Ben Flanagan of Kitchener, Ont., positioned moment within the race and broke the former Canadian file by means of ten seconds in 13:26.

BEN FLANAGAN NEW 🇨🇦 5K RECORD

2d in a WILD dash end 13:24!!#BAA5K percent.twitter.com/g710pLaMV3

— Canadian Operating (@CanadianRunning) April 15, 2023

There used to be a large number of buzz across the Canadian 5K file heading into Saturday’s race, with Charles Philibert-Thiboutot of Quebec Town coming in because the nationwide file holder and protecting B.A.A. 5K champion, whilst Flanagan got here into the race because the reigning Canadian 5K champion, preserving the second-fastest 5K time in Canadian historical past. 

The lads’s elite race were given out temporarily, going during the first mile in 4 mins and 12 seconds (13:00-flat tempo). Flanagan and Philibert-Thiboutot discovered themselves within the chase pack after Ethiopia’s Tsegay Kidanu used to be off to an early lead. Philibert-Thiboutot drove the chase pack to catch Kidanu on the 3K level. 

Within the ultimate mile, a big pack of 15 runners used to be nonetheless in competition, lining up for a dash end on Charles St. during the Boston Commonplace. Flanagan made a transfer together with his Very Great Observe Membership coaching spouse, U.S. miler Morgan Beadlescomb,with 300 metres to move, and hung on to complete moment at the back of Beadlescomb in 13:26. Kenya’s Edwin Kurgat completed 3rd in 13:27. 

Flanagan took a look over his shoulder with one mile to move and couldn’t consider what number of guys have been within the lead workforce. “When Morgan made his transfer, I knew I needed to stay myself as regards to him,” says Flanagan. “He and Charles are 1,500m guys, so you recognize they’re explosive.”

“The race used to be superior,” says Flanagan. “Despite the fact that I ran there 4 years in the past, it smartly exceeded my expectancies.”

This 5K file is the 3rd Canadian street file Flanagan has damaged within the closing 365 days. Final June, he broke the long-standing Canadian 10K file on the B.A.A. 10K in Boston, completing fourth in 28:11. 4 months later, he ran the Canadian half-marathon file of 61-flat, beating Cam Levins by means of 4 seconds on the Valencia Part Marathon. Levins later took the half-marathon file again, operating 60:18 on the Vancouver First Part in February. 

“My purpose is to make an international’s workforce,” says Flanagan. “It annoys me that I haven’t been ready to do it but.”

Flanagan and Philibert-Thiboutot will head again to the monitor to chase the 2023 global championships 5,000m same old of 13:07:00 on the Sound Operating Invitational in Los Angeles on Would possibly 6.

The brand new 🇨🇦 5K file holder @bennyflanagan chats concerning the race and his chase for the @wabudapest23 5,000m same old!#BAA5K percent.twitter.com/FlDUqZxuAO

— Canadian Operating (@CanadianRunning) April 15, 2023

Canada’s Julie-Anne Staehli completed thirteenth within the ladies’s 5K, in 15:50. The 2022 global championship steeplechase bronze medallist, Mekides Abebe of Ethiopia, received the ladies’s race in a dash end forward of Kenya’s Agnes Ngetich, in 15:01. American Annie Rodenfels of Boston completed 3rd in 15:12.

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